Quoting Holger Schröder (2024-05-05 14:01:21) > Am 05.05.24 um 11:41 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > Quoting Holger Schröder (2024-05-05 08:52:55) > >> Are there already patches that work with Fractal7? > >> > >> https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/fractal/-/tags > >> > >> > >> These no longer work with Fractal7. They still worked with 6. > >> > >> https://salsa.debian.org/matrix-team/fractal/-/tree/debian/latest/debian/patches > > Fractal is written in aggressively modern rust. > > > > Newest releases of Fractal requires a newer version of rustc than > > packaged in Debian, and consequently those releases cannot be packaged > > for Debian. > > > > I have attempted to backport some code patterns to work with older > > rustc, but I cannot keep up, and I find it extremely difficult to locate > > online examples of backporting patterns, since more commonly the focus > > is on modernizing rather than stabilizing. > > > > Help patching code that fails to build with rustc in Debian (currently > > 1.70) is much welcome. If anyone steps up to help with that but need > > concrete code patterns that currently fail, please tell me, and I will > > try extend by routines to identify and list such patterns (instead of > > only noting such patterns locally as I do now since it is less effort). > > > Then I'll probably have to install the flatpac which I don't really > like... too bad
No, you do not "have to", as there are other options: https://wiki.debian.org/Matrix You might "prefer", depending on various criteria, but those are irrelevant here, so please refrain from further elaborating on your reasons for concluding that in your view you "have to" do something. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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